Ex-spy chief Michael Morell who spoke out publicly against Trump while inspiring other career intelligence figures to follow suit has admitted his leading role in the intelligence community waging political war against the president, describing his actions as something he didn`t "fully think through".

The London-based New Arab news website cited an Iraqi Interior Ministry official as saying that the number of foreigners arrested during battles with the outfit in those areas had risen to more than 400.
Those, the source said, hailed from Arab, European and Asian countries, adding that Saudi detainees came on top, numbering 51.

The sources said that Samid al-Masloukh, the former senior field commander of ISIL in the town of al-Mayadeen in Southeastern Deir Ezzur, has escaped the battlefield towards the SDF-held regions in the province.

The Arabic-language Al-Hadath news quoted the Tunisian Intelligence Services as disclosing that Qassan Bin Ali Abdul Salam nom de guerre Abu Abdul Rahman al-Tunisi, from Tunisia, that was an emir and a senior commander of the ISIL terrorist group in Deir Ezzur had worked once as an agent of Mossad.

A UK taxpayer-funded project, which has recently been suspended over allegations it bankrolled jihadists in Syria, is an example of Western governments using aid and security contractors "to avoid accountability and responsibility," Dr. Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at University of Kent, told Radio Sputnik.

Terrorists of the so-called Jaish Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, affiliated to Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization, on Wednesday attacked a number of schools in Daraa western countryside and kidnapped 10 schools managers along with their assistants and took them to the town of Ma’araba, according to civil sources.

The websites reported that a huge explosion in the command center of the FSA-affiliated Jeish al-Nasr in the village of Tarmala in Southern Idlib occurred while deploying artillery, leaving a number of terrorists dead or wounded.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says Saudi Arabia is working directly with Israel on confronting "challenges" in the Middle East, suggesting that the two sides could go as far as setting up "a joint military headquarters."

Three civilians were injured and material damage was caused due to shells fired by armed groups on Bab Touma and Kafarsouseh areas in Damascus Saturday in a new violation of the agreement of de-escalation zones.

Ever since the Western corporate media began pimping the White Helmets as the “heroes of the Syrian crisis,” lavishing praise upon them, and even giving them film awards for some of the cheesiest filmmaking in the business

It is well known to anyone who spends even the smallest amount of time researching the Syrian conflict that the United States and Britain have been providing support to not only the White Helmets but also to terrorist groups such as al-Nusra, ISIS, and al-Qaeda among others.

Most observers would agree that the United States has directly or indirectly contributed to the creation of most of the international terrorist groups that have been in the news for the past thirty years.

Now the wahhabi salafi takfiris have revived the persecution of the sufis. My SWAG would be that this congregation were of the Shadhili tariqa. They are numerous in that part of Egypt and many of them are of a beduin tribe who understandably has resisted the IS devils. There will be more abominations like this.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it’s true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein really did hire former agents of Israel’s Mossad spy agency to snoop on his accusers and on journalists who were planning to report the story that has rocked the world since the start of October.

While the United States continues to pant wildly and promote disproven claims of chemical weapons, Assad’s alleged “brutality,” and the SAA’s supposed “crimes against humanity,” the fighters it has funded since 2011 are engaged in the very definition of terrorism in Damascus as we speak.

An explosion has occurred at Al Rawdah mosque, west of El Arish city in the north of Egypt`s Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 75 people and reportedly injuring some 150, Egypt`s Health Ministry has been cited as saying by Sky News Arabia.

The Islamist rebels of Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a risky offensive in the besieged east Damascus pocket this past week, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions at the strategic vehicle base in the Harasta suburb.

One person was injured on Saturday as rocket shells fired by armed groups positioned in Eastern Ghouta hit several areas in al-Dwail’a residential neighborhood in Damascus city, in a new violation of the de-escalation zone agreement in Eastern Ghouta, according to a source at Damascus Police Command.

Four civilians, including a child, were killed on Friday as rocket shells fired by armed groups positioned in Eastern Ghouta hit Souq al-Hal (grocery market) in al-Zablatani area and al-Dwail’a neighborhood in Damascus city in a new violation of the de-escalation zone agreement in Eastern Ghouta.

20 civilians were killed and 30 others were injured due to a car bomb attack carried out by Daesh (ISIS) on Friday evening at a location where displaced families were gathered in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor province.

For years, the United States government stuck to its nonsensical claim that the Syrian government was the only party in Syria using chemical weapons despite their being no evidence that the SAA has ever used such weapons.

Nouralddeen al-Zinki pushed Al-Nusra terrorists back from the village of al-Sa`adiyeh, Dar al-Izzah court and al-Konj checkpoint near the town of Dar al-Izzah that is the largest checkpoint in Western Aleppo.

The campaign to discredit Kaspersky Lab dates back to 2010, when the Russian-based cybersecurity firm uncovered the origin of the Stuxnet malicious computer worm which ruined Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.

WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool ‘Hive,’ which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.